Boscola and other state lawmakers traveled to Lehighton to push the "Property Tax Indepedence Act." The bill would get rid of all local school taxes.

Instead, you would pay one percent more in sales taxes statewide. Workers' wage taxes would also increase.

"With sales tax, you get all those people that are coming in from outside of the state when they come in and they buy things," said Boscola. "So the pool of people paying into the system gets bigger."

Boscola pointed out that right now, renters and tourists pay nothing for schools.

The bill guarantees school districts the same amount of money they're collecting now -- with room for modest increases, but school leaders worry how the state will divvy-up the money.

"The issue is going to be, who do we go to next?", said Rocky Ahner, head of the Lehighton Area School Board. "If they have it in these different bills that you can go to occupational tax or what can you go to? A business tax?"

Kistler-Pete has already seen friends leave the state. She might be next.

"I truly love Pennsylvania. I do. I was born and raised here," she said. "But we will have to leave."

There are actually 26 different property tax bills in Harrisburg this year. As for the "Property Tax Independence Act," Boscola said she is close to getting enough votes to pass it this year. But the state House wants to let school districts opt-out of the program.

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